A report from CBS this week revealed the working conditions of tens of thousands of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who work in mines to extract the cobalt needed for lithium batteries.

A recent Bloomberg article has brought to light a harsh reality, the demand for electric vehicles (EVs) is increasing child labor rates in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): The appetite for electric cars is driving a boom in small-scale cobalt production in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where some mines have been found to […]

A new coalition of groups in Arizona is seeking to force utilities in the state to generate more power from renewable energy beyond the 15 percent the state currently requires, according to a new report this week.

Legislative leaders in both the Oregon House of Representatives and Oregon Senate cast doubt on whether a proposed carbon tax bill could pass in either legislative body this year, according to the Portland Tribune.

A CBS Los Angeles investigation has uncovered that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) are reluctant to use the electric vehicles the department leases as part of a splashy effort to supposedly “go green”:

Judge Martin Carlson rendered a 58-Page opinion on his decision to reject the jury’s award in excess of $4 Million:

“He said the award ‘bore no discernible relationship” to the evidence, which he said was ‘at best limited’…Even if the court were to find that the jury’s verdict of liability should stand, the damages could not withstand ‘even passing scrutiny,’ he said…But the trial record and the ‘substantial and varied weaknesses in the plaintiffs’ case, together with many cases of ‘inappropriate conduct’ that occurred in the jury’s presence may have colored the outcome of the case, the judge said.”

The case is being set for retrial if the parties can’t reach a reasonable settlement, but possibly the most notable development is the otherwise vocalGasland director Josh Fox’s silence on the matter.

To date, the director, environmentalist, and Bernie Sanders surrogate who wanted to make it so natural gas “can’t survive” in America has not commented on this major defeat, choosing instead to focus on crowdfunding his newest film and rants against Republicans, Democrats, and capitalism.